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A total of 19 private hospitals in Coimbatore district were approved to offer treatment for COVID-19 under the Chief Minister’s Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme (CMCHIS), the district administration said on Tuesday.
The private hospitals to offer COVID-19 treatment under the insurance scheme include Abinand Hospital, Sathya Medical Centre, NG Hospital, CSR Nursing Home, Kongunadu Hospital, Kalpana Medical Centre, Sree Abirami Hospital, KG Hospital, Hindustan Hospital, Karpagam Hospital, One Care Hospital, GKNM Hospital, Gem Hospital, Sri Ramakrishna Hospital, Royal Care Hospital, Sri Lakshmi Hospital, NM Hospital and Kovai Medical Center and Hospital.
The district administration said that people who are affected by COVID-19 can directly seek treatment at these hospitals without the recommendation from a government hospital. The expense of the treatment will be borne under the CMCHIS scheme.
Two GHs to get oxygen generation units
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Oxygen manufacturing units will be established at Government Hospitals in Kuzhithurai and Thuckalay to meet the demand for the life-saving gas, Minister for Information Technology T. Mano Thangaraj has said.
In a statement, he said Chief Minister M.K. Stalin had announced that the treatment for COVID-19 would be included in the Chief Minister’s Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme in a bid to save the poor undergoing treatment in private hospitals. Similarly, oxygen production had to be increased to meet the demand. “I have spoken with the Health Secretary to increase the quota of Remdesivir and COVID-19 vaccines to Kanniyakumari district,” Mr. Mano Thangaraj said.
Coronavirus | Seeking order amid chaos
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Command centre to help those looking for hospital beds
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Hunting for beds: Staff at Unified Command Centre in Chennai coordinating with hospitals.
| Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Command centre to help those looking for hospital beds Signs saying “double masking mandatory” welcome the visitors at the non air-conditioned hall on the seventh floor of the office of the National Health Mission (NHM) here.
Amid the whirring of pedestal fans and air-coolers placed in corners, a team of about 50 people work in shifts round the clock in an attempt to match demand with supply COVID-19 patients in urgent need of oxygen or hospitalisation. This is the Unified Command Centre (UCC), the new nerve centre for COVID-19 management in Tamil Nadu that became functional on Friday, mainly to handle bed capacity at hospitals.
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MGM Healthcare opens institute for liver transplant
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Four transplant surgeries performed at facility in a month
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Four transplant surgeries performed at facility in a month MGM Healthcare has announced the setting up of MGM Institute of Liver Transplant and Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary (HPB) Surgery at the hospital.
Addressing the media here on Monday, the doctors said the institute performed four liver transplants with organs from live donors in the past one month.
S. Thiagarajan, director of the institute, said this included a liver transplant for a 42-year-old man under the Chief Minister’s Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme. He said the patient had acute and chronic liver failure with episodes of food pipe bleeding. He was admitted to the hospital in critical condition. After treating him to prepare for an emergency liver transplant, Dr. Thiagarajan said the necessary approvals for performing the transplant under Chief Minister’s Co